Technical Working Group
Agenda, 23 December 2009

1Administration

1.1Welcome and introductions

In order to move forward within the uncertainty of reconstruction methods, policy and institutional arrangements in post earthquake by the government of West Java, the shelter coordination group initiated a first TwiG on information outreach. The aim was to give necessary information on how to buld back safely to community through various information media such as poster and leaflet.

2Technical Working Groups

2.1Skills trainingPublic Outreach

  1. Existing Materials

Within the limited condition (time, human resources and financial), all participants agreed to work with available posters (from previous experience such as Yogyakarta and West Sumatera) as started point and modified them especially based on West Java’s context. Some of the existing materials are:

  • Confined masonry- by UGM and IOM (modified from Yogyakarta to West Sumatera Context)
  • Lightweight wall with timber and concrete construction- by UGM and IOM (for West Sumatera)
  • Bamboo basic principles – by UGM/JAR (for Yogyakarta)
  • Bamboo technical guidelines – by UGM/JAR (for Yogyakarta)
  • Clean Up – Oxfam and JAR (for Yogyakarta)
  • Confined masonry – by JICA (for Yogyakarta and West Sumatera)
  • Basic DRR – by UN HABITAT (for West Sumatera)
  1. Some important notes

Construction Materials

Since bamboo is endemic here in West Java and evidence found in the field that most of community use this materials for their houses, then it is decided that one of the outreach (poster) should disiminate information on bamboo construction.

It is also decided to give option on how to build earthquake resistant house with reinforced concrete structure and brick walls. It was thought that perhaps there are still many people want to build back their homes with these materials, therefore it is also important to give proper technical guidelines through poster.

Terminology & Durability

There was a question on how to use ‘Transitional Shelter’ and ‘Permanent Shelter’, but it was decided not to put those words in the posters for outreach. The most important thing is how to make the best out of the available local (construction) materials to be long lasting for future use (for housing extension, stall or warung, kitchen, etc). It is hoped that community could easily understand the basic principles of construction, and have options to build back safer.

While it is considered to be ‘too much’ to put process of treatment (for bamboo or timber for instance) for durability issue, one small section to explain few basic things to make the building more durable is need to be displayed (for instance selecting type of bamboo, sustainable harvesting, quality control, storage system, etc).

Using Local (Sundanese) Language or Terminology

Even though it was not necessary to use local/Sundanese language for technical guidance poster (with assumption that most of members of community understand Bahasa Indonesia), but some words perhaps will be better understood if using local language (for instance for DRR poster) or spesific terminology that known locally.

Logo

Apart from logos from respective agancies,donors,universities, It is agreed to also getting endorsement from Dinas PU (Public Works Office) and Provincial Government, and having their logos in the posters.

3Next meeting time/location

For efficiency issue, all participants agreed to have the next TwiG meeting after the regular Shelter Cluster meeting on Wednesday, 6th of January 2010. The tentative venue is in Ruang Rapat, Posko Gempa Jawa Barat, Gedung Merdeka.

4Action Points

Action Point / Action / Actor / Due date
1 / Forward through e-mail all the available soft copy of the posters to the rest of the participants (who hasn’t got them from previous email): ITENAS, ITB and Yayasan Ibu; /
  • UNDP (Hizrah)

2 / Take a look closely to those posters, taking notes of what is important and what is missing or which parts need to be removed, etc /
  • All TWiG participants
/
  • All inputs need to be taken in the next TWiG meeting

3 / ITENAS will send (to UNDP/Hizrah) their own materials of bamboo construction (for comparison) which also contain local/Sundanese terminology in construction; /
  • ITENAS

5Attendees

Name / Organisation / Role
1 / Cleo Hennesy /
  • IOM
/
  • MEE Manager

2 / Lilik Trimaya /
  • OXFAM
/
  • ER Coordinator

3 /
  • IBU FOUNDATION

4 / Thomas Meier /
  • ASB
/
  • Tech Consultant

5 / Pak Ahmad /
  • ITENAS
/
  • Lecturer

6 / Pak Ahmad Rida Soemardy /
  • ITB
/
  • Lecturer

To contact the Shelter Coordination Team

Coordinator: Hizrah Muchtar, +62 0813 1595 6511

Administration:Lioni Beatrik +62 22 769 19329

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